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So Moses wrote this Law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi ^(C1)who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

Then Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, at the time of ^(C1)the year of the release of debts, at the ^(C2)Feast of Booths,

when all Israel comes ^(C1)to appear before the LORD your God at ^(C2)the place which He will choose, ^(C3)you shall read this Law before all Israel ^(F1)so that they hear it.

"Assemble the people, the men, the women, the children, and the stranger who is in your ^(F1)town, so that they may hear and ^(C1)learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to ^(F2)follow all the words of this Law.

"And their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live on the land ^(F1)which you are about to cross the Jordan to ^(F2)possess."

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, ^(F1)(C1)the time for you to die is near; call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, and I will commission him." ^(C2)So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.

^(C1)And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.

The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, ^(C1)you are about to ^(F1)lie down with your fathers; and ^(C2)this people will arise and play the prostitute with the foreign gods of the land into the midst of which they are going, and ^(C3)they will abandon Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

"^(C1)Then My anger will be kindled against them on that day, and ^(C2)I will abandon them and ^(C3)hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will find them; so they will say on that day, '^(C4)Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have found us?'

"But I will assuredly hide My face on that day because of all the evil that they will have done, for they will have turned away to other gods.

"Now then, ^(C1)write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it ^(F1)on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

"Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may ^(F1)remain there as a witness against you.